To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy
To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy
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To Hell and Back

Author: Audie Murphy

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/22/2005

Synopsis

The time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war. Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a buddy die from an enemy bullet and an enemy die from one of his own. By V-E day, he had killed at least 240 Germans, had single-handedly destroyed a German tank in one battle and held off six tanks in another, and had become the most decorated soldier in American history, winning every medal his country offered, including the Congressional Medal of Honor.Instantly recognized for its grim authenticity and its unblinking accounts of some of the most terrible fighting in the war, To Hell and Back became a bestseller and, in 1955, the basis for one of the most successful World War II films ever made, with Murphy playing himself.

About Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy grew up on a sharecropper's farm in Hunt County, Texas, in a family of eleven children who were deserted by their father. He was sixteen when his mother died and his brothers and sisters were sent to an orphanage or to relatives. When World War II broke out, he joined the infantry. By the war's end, Murphy had become the nation's most decorated soldier with twenty-eight medals, including three from France and one from Belgium. After he returned to a hero's welcome in the United States, he was persuaded by actor James Cagney to embark on an acting career, and he made more than forty films. In 1971, at the age of 46, he died in the crash of a private plane near Roanoke, Virginia. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessaka on June 02, 2019

Ah, i had a crush on Audie Murphy when i was a kid so i read and enjoyed this book back when it first came out. My crush was short lived as were all my crushes on movie stars, western singers, and boys at school. To this day i still like the looks of a man in a cowboy hat, jeans, and cowboy boots, bu......more

Goodreads review by A.L. on October 27, 2015

I have a good friend in the Washington, D.C. area who visits Audie Murphy’s grave every time she goes to Arlington, so this book has been on my to-read list for a while. I enjoy memoirs that can bring out several extreme emotions, and this one, written by America’s most decorated WWII combat vet, ma......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on July 24, 2009

Update: I read this memoir several years ago and am now about 50% through Beyond Band of Brothers The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters. Comparisons will be inevitable, I suppose, especially since Winters started as an officer. Both are interesting, but I think Murphy's the more introspective. It was......more

Goodreads review by Marijan on December 21, 2017

Jedan od najboljih vojničkih memoara koje sam ikad pročitao. Audie Murphy je najodlikovaniji američki vojnik drugog svjetskog rata. uz 27 američkih odlikovanja (uključujući i kongresnu medalju časti) dobio je i 5 odlikovanja europskih zemalja (uključujući i legiju časti). iz njegovih se ratnih uspom......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 16, 2022

"Daylight reveals that the tree above us is filled with ripe cherries. We are thinking of risking our lives for the fruit when Brandon gets a bright idea. He lies on his back and with bursts from his tommy gun clips off branches of the tree. They fall onto our hole; and we eat." I was immediately tak......more

Quotes

“In all the research I’ve done on World War II combat veterans I cannot recall another story that involves so much up close and personal fighting.”  Tom Brokaw

“A book of raw honesty, clipped descriptions, and simple courage…[Grover Gardner] is quietly descriptive, and the listener can’t help being moved.” AudioFile

“[Grover Gardner] brings this terse yet vivid and articulate memoir to life…[Gardner’s] clear and well-paced reading is a joy.” Library Journal (audio review)

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